Tom Dechaene

Color Kinetics, Inc. designs and markets solid-state lighting systems. The company services include specifying, designing, installing, and operating of lighting systems. Its lighting systems include IntelliWhite, EssentialWhite Lighting Systems & Controllers, and accessories. The firm was co-founded by Ihor A. Lys and George G. Mueller in 1997 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Telindus Group NV provides information communication technology (ICT) services. The firm designs and builds communications networks, including local area (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs) and provides network support services. Telindus also offers Internet protocol (IP) telephony, wireless services and voice, data and Internet access services. The company is headquartered in Heverlee, Belgium.

Part of Cisco Systems, Inc., Cocom AS develops high-speed Internet access solutions over cable and wireless networks. The private company is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Danish company was founded by Henrik Hvidtfeldt. Cocom was acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc. on September 29, 1999 for $65.60 million.

The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank for Europe's single currency, the euro. The ECB’s main task is to maintain the euro's purchasing power and thus price stability in the euro area. The main objective of the Eurosystem is to maintain price stability: safeguarding the value of the euro. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.

Ikonisys, Inc. designs and manufactures medical diagnostic products for the diagnosis of cancers. Its products include Ikoniscope Robotic Microscope that provides automated slide handling, slide scanning, real-time image capture and analysis, eliminates various factors that cause human error in testing, oncoFISH bladder that allows scanning and analysis of cells recovered from a voided urine sample. The company was founded by Pramod K. Srivastava, Petros Tsipouras, Gamil G. de Chadarevian, Michael W. Kilpatrick and Triantafyllos Tafas in 1999 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.